The city of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam - At the tender age of five, he saw his father's hanging from a ceiling. The grownups broke the news to the little child that his dad had had a heart attack.
As he grew into manhood, the young man discovered that his father, a German soldier, had taken his own life after abandoning his Vietnamese family and Vietnam.
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He is looking for answers and his sister, who is half Vietnamese, nowadays.
Friedhelm Redlich is optimistic despite the search's eleven fruitless years.
Friedhelm has an intriguing, fiery, one-of-a-kind narrative to share.
Up until this point, Vietnam has only heard tales of lost loved ones whose paths crossed during the American War, often referred to as the Vietnam War internationally, which ended 45 years ago.
Redlich's narrative begins considerably earlier, during the war that Vietnam was compelled to fight. This conflict ended the second French colony of Vietnam and culminated in the renowned 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu.
His dad was an enlistee, a foreign soldier serving in the French army, hailing from Germany.
Insisting that his daughter be called Karin, Friedhelm's father Wolfgang revealed a little bit about his Vietnamese background. However, not even Friedhelm understood why.
Karin, Friehelm's father's daughter from a relationship with a Vietnamese woman, was only revealed to him decades after the fact.
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